AWS What's New

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Application and Network Load Balancers now support RFC 9151 compliant security policies. Published context: August 4, 2026. AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) and Network Load Balancer (NLB) now support new TLS-based security policies that comply with RFC 9151 TLS server requirements for Commercial National Security Algorithm (CNSA) 1.0 suite requirements. These policies implement the cryptographic requirements defined by the US National Security Agency (NSA) for secure communic ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock launches Web Search for OpenAI GPT models. Published context: August 4, 2026. Today, we are announcing the general availability of Web Search on Amazon Bedrock, a built-in server side tool that performs web search entirely within AWS, enabling OpenAI models (GPT-5.4, GPT-5.5, and GPT-5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna) to ground responses with current web knowledge while maintaining data residency within your secured AWS environment with zero data eg ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 C8g instances now available in additional regions. Published context: August 4, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8g instances are available in AWS Europe (Paris), AWS Africa (Cape Town), AWS Israel (Tel Aviv), and AWS Canada West (Calgary) regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 C8g instances ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Config now supports 15 new resource types. Published context: August 3, 2026. AWS Config now supports 15 additional AWS resource types across key services including Amazon Bedrock, Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, and Amazon SageMaker. This expansion provides greater coverage over your AWS environment, enabling you to more effectively discover, assess, audit, and remediate an even broader range of resources. With this launch, if you have ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Lambda Provisioned Mode for Amazon SQS event source mappings now supports up to 10,000 event pollers. Published context: August 3, 2026. AWS Lambda now supports a maximum of 10,000 event pollers for Provisioned Mode for Amazon SQS event source mappings (ESMs), a 5x increase from the previous limit of 2,000. This enables you to reach up to 100,000 concurrent invocations, so you can build highly responsive and scalable event-driven applications with stringent performance requirements. Customers ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Transform continuous modernization is now generally available. Published context: August 3, 2026. AWS Transform continuous modernization is now generally available in all AWS Regions where AWS Transform is supported . This capability helps engineering teams analyze and remediate technical debt across source code repositories at scale. Teams can connect GitHub organizations, GitLab groups, and Bitbucket workspaces, run analyses on demand or on a recurring ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon MSK Express brokers now delivers Apache Kafka data to Amazon S3. Published context: July 30, 2026. Amazon MSK Express brokers now delivers data to Amazon S3 general purpose buckets, providing a fully managed capability to deliver Apache Kafka data in Amazon S3 for downstream processing in the easiest and most reliable way. This capability automatically scales to deliver high-throughput Kafka data to S3 with end-to-end reliability for mission-critical work ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances now available in Europe (Milan) region. Published context: July 31, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i-flex instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in Europe (Milan) region. These custom processors, available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud provide ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Lambda now supports Java 8, 11, and 17 on Amazon Linux 2023. Published context: July 31, 2026. AWS Lambda now supports Java 8, Java 11, and Java 17 runtimes on Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023), available as both managed runtimes and container base images. These new runtimes enable customers running Lambda functions on Java 8, 11, or 17 to migrate from Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) to AL2023 without requiring a simultaneous Java version upgrade. The existing Lambda r ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon CloudWatch announces managed Prometheus collectors. Published context: July 31, 2026. Amazon CloudWatch now supports collecting Prometheus metrics from your AWS infrastructure using fully managed collectors — enabling you to monitor Amazon EKS, Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, Amazon MSK, and Amazon OpenSearch Service workloads without deploying or managing any agents. Previously, getting Prometheus metrics into CloudWatch required deploying, scaling, The reason this matters is simple: buyers are paying attention to speed, operational resilience, and credible technical execution. A trending story can create awareness, but the business question is what a team should do with that attention. ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock announces up to 80% lower prices for OpenAI GPT‑5.6 models. Published context: July 30, 2026. Today, OpenAI announced lower prices for GPT‑5.6 Luna and GPT‑5.6 Terra. Effective July 30, 2026, on-demand inference prices on Amazon Bedrock for GPT‑5.6 Luna are reduced by 80%, while prices for GPT‑5.6 Terra are reduced by 20%. These reductions are in-line with OpenAI’s first-party pricing changes for these models. GPT‑5.6 Luna is optimized for fast, high ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for Oracle now offers Reserved Instances for R8i and M8i instances. Published context: July 31, 2026. Amazon RDS for Oracle now offers 1-year and 3-year Reserved Instances for R8i and M8i instances with up to 53% cost savings compared to On-Demand prices. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. R8i and ...